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New York Startups, Angel Investing and Talent
Matt Mireles advances the classic arguments for why NYC is not a good place for a startup in his piece for Business Insider -- raising money is hard, and talent is scarce -- but I'd like to make a couple of points to the contrary:11 New York City Start-Ups To Watch in 2011 - TNW United States
In 2010, New York City took the world by surprise, unleashing a flood of start-ups and funding power, giving Silicon Valley a run for its money, literally. Start-ups like Gilt Groupe and Etsy have already proved their potential to attract mass markets outside of the tech community.
Starting with the 20 hot startups we profiled last week, we're plotting the city's promising young companies on the map below. We'll keep updating and expanding it, so let us know if you have suggestions.
Where Do New York's Hottest Startups Set Up Shop?
O n any given day in New York City, there are usually close to a dozen, if not more, “meetups” for people who work for tech start-ups. There are NY Tech Meetups, monthly events that can attract nearly a thousand people to an auditorium at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where developers have five minutes to demonstrate what their technologies do and then get to network with the venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and bloggers and assorted hangers-on in attendance afterward at Black Door, a bar on West 26th Street.